Quote by Elihu Root
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like eac

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. – Elihu Root

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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. – Elihu Root

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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. – Elihu Root

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Government
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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. – Elihu Root

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Arafat was a barrier to peace. – Charles Schumer

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other peoples, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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My different personalities leave me in peace now. – Anna Freud

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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. – Louis Pasteur

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From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much – the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. – Eliot Spitzer

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Aspire to a lower level of harm. – Terri Guillemets

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On all the peaks lies peace. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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